That Will Teach Me

Now for some reason I had a feeling that I had already used 'That Will Teach Me' as a post title once before. I guess not, as it's not been flagged.

I should have used it before, as this is not the first time it's happened. I have definitely been down this road previously, that's why I normally conduct my daily dealings with an amount of deference.

Believe me, I am all too familiar with the phrase "It will come back to bite you", I daresay there are probably a few mental scars to prove it as well.

If you cast your mind back to yesterday's post 'It's Already An Amazing Day', the headline pretty much gives it away. It was an amazing day but I should have sidled on through it without drawing attention to the fact.

Let's just say that Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible) must have been paying close attention to my day and decided that I needed a lesson in humility.

Back to today. The first 'order of business' was to install both the graphics card and the hard drive that I had forgotten I had. When someone says to you, only change one thing at a time, take note.

I did take note, had I not, things might have been catastrophic rather than just disastrous. Turns out that the graphics card was a 'low profile' one, which I hadn't realised when ordering.

Not a major issue, I removed some of the metalwork and it fitted well enough (just a gap at the rear of the computer) . Anyway, it turns out that I would need to do some more research, as it wasn't a case of 'plug and play', it wasn't having a bean of it. Sigh.

I removed it and moved onto the hard drive. No long-winded description, everything went south, rapidly. It also became apparent that it wasn't empty, it was actually nearly full.

It seems that adding this last drive pushed my poor PC over the edge. Before that I had also moved a 'jumper' connector in the hope of salvaging something from the graphics card debacle.

Instead, system passwords went haywire and I could no longer access my normal desktop. All in all, it's been a right mess on an unprecedented scale. Oh well, what can we do but smile and move on.

As if the 'trying trio' hadn't had enough fun with me already, guess what I found ? An internal card

reader, so there was no need for me to buy the one I recently purchased.

I will not be bitter or twisted and as we speak, the wheels of industry are turning in an effort to supply me with the correct 'fascia/caddy' to house the old card reader.

The good news is that Being already familiar with swapping files from one drive to another, along with re-instating broken short-cuts and reinstalling programs. None of it is urgent and I have access to everything I had before, it's just in a different place.

Apparently, the 'old' recently found hard drive hasn't seen the artificial light of day for more than three years. After a brief perusal, I have found some very interesting files that I had completely forgotten about. Silver linings abound.

Oh, remember the 'nodes' ? Yep, they no longer worked as they were 'opened' on the other hard drive.

Last but not least, one of the iPhones that I found has now been fully charged and although 'disabled' and inaccessible, seems quite happy to sound regular alarms that were set up when the phone was in daily use. It is now back in the drawer, so as to muffle the sound.

So, there we have it, my day so far. I'm off to take some more pictures of my friend's Beetle and that will be enjoyable. Maybe this evening I will get some actual work done. How's your weekend shaping up ?

Twack Romero